Saturday, May 27, 2017

The Main Characteristics Of Extreme Impressionism

By Pamela King


Each and every artist has their inimitably unique style of doing their paintings. As much as this presents an individual with the freedom to paint visually impressive landscapes in whichever way that favors their style, Extreme Impressionism still remains the most impeccable form of painting. It has its own distinct character that places impressionists apart from other painters. To the viewer, true landscape paintings simply leaves them in awe.

Impressionism is neither a collection of landscape artworks, nor the most renowned movement in French art. It is an attitude commonly shared by a number of individuals whose paintings are subject to the same problems. The name Claude Monet is synonymous to this movement. He was a prominent landscape painter, reputed for introducing new ideas, that formed the foundation of landscape painting.

Historians acknowledge that realism in artistic representations of Plein arts, as in extreme-impressionism, was first started by the Romantics, early in the nineteenth century. Their search for an authentic and realistic paintings of a natural environment added a distinct value to their works. Progressively, this form of art gained ground across Europe and to other global horizons.

The most compelling aspect of arts by impressionists is their ability to recreate objects that appear in sight just as they are. This simple character is what makes them different from other artists. Upon viewing their works, one notices that the brush strokes are spontaneous, rapid and robust, with much emphasis polarized on how light influences the appearance of different objects. Further, they capture brief moments, regardless of how differently objects appear.

Light as mentioned earlier, was the main character of the visual impressions made by artists. Their approach was strongly influenced by the principle that light influenced appearances as perceived by the eye. A painting by an impressionist was not influenced by emotions as provoked by the appearance of objects, but by observing how the physical setting changed, disintegrated or fragmented, because of variance in light degrees.

Another critical aspect of extreme impression arts is color. Early artworks by Romantics appeared dingy, because of too much use of dark pigments. This veiled the underlying purpose, and compromised the whole concept of using light. Resultantly, the following generation of artists sought after more bright colors like orange, green, blue, violet, and crimson among others. Nonetheless, most of them relied on their natural ability to observe the character in a natural setting.

Impressionism, as a matter of fact, did not hatch any school. It neither had a clear manifesto, nor set standards on how to paint. In simple terms, it comprises a series of art groups made up of artists whose trajectory of thought in regard to their works are parallel. Regardless, each of them is always very cautious not to compromise their individuality as far as their works go.

Extreme-impressionism had a great impact on the historical schools in the Western front. Though not equally revolutionary as other movements such as Cubism or Surrealism, the character of realistic landscape paintings drew an entirely new approach to painting that depicted nature as it was.




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